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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jasper Jackson and Alex Hern

Western-owned Russian firm helps sites pushing false news profit from ads

Yandex founder Arkady Volozh (front, second right) celebrating Yandex listing on the Nasdaq exchange in 2011.
Yandex founder Arkady Volozh (front, second right) celebrating Yandex listing on the Nasdaq exchange in 2011. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

A Russian tech giant mostly owned by western investors is helping websites pushing false claims about the war in Ukraine to make thousands of dollars every day through digital advertising.

Yandex is considered Russia’s equivalent to Google, running both a search engine and an extensive digital advertising business. Its deputy CEO, Tigran Khudaverdyan, resigned this month after the European Union imposed sanctions on him.

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